New York Insider Guide: SoHo (South of Houston) www.nycinsiderguide.com Things to Do • Fire Museum (278 Spring & Watts St) - renovated 1904 x firehouse, with fire-related artifacts: painted leather buckets, SOB’s helmets, parade hats and belts, tools, hand pumped fire engines. • (141 Wooster, Houston/Prince) – Free. Many NY-ers consider this a hidden gem. Called an “installation,” or exhibit, 140 tons of sculpted soil (22 inches deep) filling 3600 sq ft of a 2nd Dos Caminos x floor gallery. No photos allowed. Wed-Sun, 12-6pm (closed 3- NY Earth Room 3:30pm). Around the corner is (393 W NY Fire Museum x x , same artist). Ask kids to guess how many brass rods they Mercer Hotel see lying on the floor. x Prada x x Lure Fishbar Barolo Shopping→ Restaurants x Area R/WSoHo Park x Downtown Cipriani • (80 Spring St, Bway/Crosby) – French bistro, great for x Steve Madden brunch, lunch, dinner. Authentic French décor and a city hot spot. x Balthazar Broome x • Dos Caminos SoHo (W Bway/ W Houston) – Mexican, outdoor patio Street Bar for people watching and homemade guacamole and delicious SoHo Grand x margaritas. • Lure Fishbar (142 Mercer and Prince) – Nouveau seafood. Décor is Pearl River Mart x very well done and you feel like you’re on a yacht or cruise ship at sea. • Barolo (398 , Broome/Spring) - Italian with the best outdoor garden in nice weather. Large restaurant, good service. • Downtown Cipriani (376 W Broadway, Broome St) – Italian. Go for © Map courtesy of www.openstreetmap.org the scene and atmosphere, not really for the food. Great heated outdoor sidewalk for people watching and upstairs, is a hot bar/club that looks like an exclusive ski-resort lounge. South of Houston (pronounced HOW-ston) and north of Canal streets are home to the city's largest concentration of cast-iron-fronted buildings. SoHo is all about art • SoHo Park (62 Prince St, Lafayette) – outdoor, casual galleries, shopping and eating. restaurant/garden perfect for downing a few beers with old friends. • S.O.B.'s (Sounds of Brazil, 204 Varick Street at W Houston) - night Subways spot, club, live music for samba and salsa. C/E to Spring St, B/D/F/V to Broadway-Lafayette, N/R to Prince, 6 to Bleecker • Ken’s Bar (363 W Bway, Broome St ) – laid back scene, closest to a dive bar in SoHo, know for their burgers served on pita bread. © nycinsiderguide.com, v. 2021 28/56 Insider Guide: SoHo (South of Houston) www.nycinsiderguide.com

Shopping

x • There is no way to list the hundreds of SoHo stores, but for SOB’s shopaholics, just weave the streets bound by Broadway, Grand, W Bway and W Houston. Those quaint streets have more stores than most cities. • Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Miu Miu, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Dos Caminos x Catharine Malandrino, Coach, Burberry, Kate Spade, Jill Stuart, John NY Earth Room Varvatos, Ben Sherman . NY Fire Museum x x • H&M, J. Crew, Banana Republic, American Eagle, Bloomingdales (not Mercer Hotel the main store), Steve Madden. x Prada x x • Lure Fishbar Apple Store (Prince) – famous hip interior and sleek layout. Barolo Shopping→ x Area R/WSoHo Park • Patagonia, Burton Snowboards, Diesel Denim Gallery x Downtown Cipriani • House/Home Stores – Armani Casa, Room and Board, Bo Concept x Steve Madden x Balthazar Broome x Street Bar Hotels SoHo Grand • (310 W Bway, Grand/Canal) – Grand Bar and x Lounge Pearl River Mart • x Mercer Hotel (147 Mercer St, Prince St) – great lobby bar and Mercer Kitchen restaurant

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South of Houston (pronounced HOW-ston) and north of Canal streets are home to the city's largest concentration of cast-iron-fronted buildings. SoHo is all about art galleries, shopping and eating.

Subways C/E to Spring St, B/D/F/V to Broadway-Lafayette, N/R to Prince, 6 to Bleecker

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